Fort Rodman Playfield

Fort Rodman Playfield is a deciduous forest in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts. Fort Rodman Playfield is situated nearby to the village South Dartmouth, as well as near the hamlet Bliss Corner.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Clarks Point Light and Butler Flats Lighthouse.

Clarks Point Light

Lighthouse

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The Clarks Point Light is located in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Originally constructed as a wooden tower, it was replaced with a stone tower in 1804. This in turn was replaced by a structure on the parapets of Fort Rodman which was deactivated in 1898.

Butler Flats Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Photo: Lara, CC BY 2.0.

Butler Flats Light is a sparkplug lighthouse located in the outer harbor of New Bedford, Massachusetts, at the mouth of the Acushnet River. Built in 1898 by the United States Lighthouse Board, it is the only known caisson lighthouse designed by a marine architect.

Hazelwood Park

Park

Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Hazelwood Park is a public park on Clark's Point in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The park occupies a plot of 23 acres on the west side of New Bedford's southern peninsula, between Rodney French Boulevard and Brock Avenue.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fairhaven and Bliss Corner.

Fairhaven

Photo: Schlitzer90, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Fairhaven is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. It is located on the South Coast of Massachusetts where the Acushnet River flows into Buzzards Bay, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean.

Bliss Corner

Hamlet

Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Bliss Corner is a census-designated place in the town of Dartmouth in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 census, Bliss Corner had a population of 5,480.

Fort Rodman Playfield

Type: Deciduous forest
Category: forest
Location: New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.5951° or 41° 35′ 42″ north

Longitude

-70.909° or 70° 54′ 32″ west

Open location code

87HFH3WR+2C

OpenStreetMap ID

way 29692015

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as South Dartmouth and Redgate Corner.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Battery Milliken and University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Marine Campus.

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